LITERATURE ESSAYS from Gregor Rare Books

New York:: Knopf,, 1996.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this collection of essays, William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both… Read more about this item

New York::: Viking,,, 1985... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Flower and the Leaf is a collection of short essays that Cowley wrote between 1941 to the early 1980s. The essays cover many literary topics from: authors, works, intellectual issues, and history. They are personal in tone… Read more about this item

New York::: Viking,,, 1973... First Printing of the First Edition.. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. During World War I Malcolm Cowley was a reporter from the front for The Pittsburgh Gazette and an American Field Service ambulance driver along with Hemingway, Cummings and so many other "lost generation" writers. After the war, he returned… Read more about this item

London::: Andre Deutsch,,, 1973... First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. During World War I Malcolm Cowley was a reporter from the front for The Pittsburgh Gazette and an American Field Service ambulance driver along with Hemingway, Cummings and so many other "lost generation" writers. After the war, he… Read more about this item

Boston::: Little Brown & Co,,, 1962... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus, unclipped bright dust jacket with some light edge wear to the spine. With this collection of essays, Kazin has produced a critical survey of the modern spirit in literature, featuring over seventy essays including individual studies ranging from Melville,… Read more about this item

Carbondale :: Southern Illinois University,, 1970.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus dust jacket with a short edgetear and light edgewear. This volume by notedliterary critic and historian Malcolm Cowley collects 14 essays on and assessments of Hawthorne, Whitman, Horatio Alger, Hnery James, Lafcadio Hearn, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Eugene O'Neill,… Read more about this item